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No 95 on The Times' Top 100 Films of the Noughties


My girlfriend and I are watching through all the top 100 films of the noughties published by The Times and this popped up at number 95.

Thought this was a decent film (hadn't watched it until doing this list) but not the classic i've seen magazines make it out to be. If you're into these multiple overlapping stories i'd recommend Lantana - its a really good Aussie film with Anthony LaPaglia in it.

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Can't say I really agree with The Times' list, see it at:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6902642.ece

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I instantly closed the page when I realised Wedding Crashers is #90 and Amores Perros is #95 :/

- Splaj.

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Good thing you closed it when you did, because it gets much, much worse...

12 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
A mercilessly efficient account of Stasi surveillance in mid-1980s East Germany is anchored by a haunting performance from Ulrich Mühe, who died from stomach cancer just after the film’s release.

11 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles, 2006)
The decade’s favourite sexist, anti-Semitic, racist homophobe, Borat picked at the scabs of America’s intolerance and hypocrisy. Sacha Baron Cohen’s status as the most fearless man in comedy is unlikely to be challenged in the near future.

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@ tcunningha1, so what are you saying? I have no complaints for "The Lives of Others" at no 12 but Borat at no 11 is way too high (it cud be in later half). wedding crashers at 90 is unbeleivable joke. its just run of a mill comedy.

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No I'm not complaining that The Lives of Others is no. 12 at all, that is a great movie. My point was Borat being put ahead of it. I thought Borat was terrible.

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also, absent from that list, unless I missed them:

Oldboy
25th Hour
Million Dollar Baby
The Departed
Blood Diamond
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Inglorious Basterds
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Prestige
Big Fish
Mongol
Ray
Mr. Brooks
Apocolypto
The Others
Kill Bill
Gran Turino
Hero

Terrible list...

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Amelie wasn't there either...


It's OK, Claude... it's me... Dad...
-Ken Park

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Neither is "Requiem for a Dream." These lists are made to inspire argument (mission accomplished), but really: "Slumdog Millionaire" at No. 6?

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i totally forgot about mongol, thanks for reminder i need to watch that again :)

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I made it a bit further than you. Fu*king Anchorman is ranked higher than There Will Be Blood. Are the editors in high school?


I am Jack's IMDb post.

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Amores Perros is much better than Lantana.

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I cannot access that Times list, but these are some of my favorite films from the "naughties".

A Serious Man 2009
El Secreto de Sus Ojos 2009
The White Ribbon 2009
Tetro 2009
Revolutionary Road 2008
Burn After Reading 2008
House of Sand and Fog 2008
In the Valley of Elah 2008
Slumdog Millionaire 2008
The Bank Job 2008
Red Cliff (International Version - Part I & Part II) 2008
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007
Starting Out In The Evening 2007
Gone Baby Gone 2007
Hollywood Ending 2007
No Country for Old Men 2007
There Will Be Blood 2007
12 2007
3:10 To Yuma 2007 (one of the few remakes as good as the original)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007
Taste of Cherry 2007
The Counterfeiters 2007
The Lives of Others 2006
Notes on a Scandal 2006
Stranger Than Fiction 2006
Volver 2006
Good Night, and Good Luck 2005
Separate Lies 2005
The Weather Man 2005
The Proposition 2005
The Motorcycle Diaries 2004
Vera Drake 2004
Alexander, Revisited: Final Cut 2004
Brødre 2004
Sideways 2004
The Assassination of Richard Nixon 2004
A Very Long Engagement 2004
Cambridge Spies (Brit TV series) 2003
American Splendor 2003
Dogville 2003
Good Bye, Lenin! 2003
Match Point 2003
The Mayor of Casterbridge 2003
The Statement 2003
Adaptation 2002
Hable con Ella 2002
About Schmidt 2002
All or Nothing 2002
Far from Heaven 2002
Heartlands 2002
Ripley's Game 2002
The Man Without a Past 2002
Mulholland Drive 2001
The Man Who Wasn't There 2001
Amelie 2001
In Bruges 2001
La Mala Educación (Original Uncut NC-17 Edition) 2001
Last Orders 2001
The Devil's Backbone 2001
Conspiracy 2001
No Man's Land 2001
The Believer 2001
Amores Perros 2000
Nine Queens 2000
Quills 2000
Shadow of the Vampire 2000
Almost Famous: The Bootleg Cut 2000
American Psycho 2000
Pollock 2000
Requiem for a Dream (Dir Cut) 2000
The Luzhin Defence 2000
Traffic 2000
You Can Count on Me 2000

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